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Ms Petrine Fong, 26, has had to get creative when photographing products for sponsored posts. She works in the corridor outside her HDB flat in Bedok.

Petrine Fong has had to get creative when photographing products. She works in the corridor outside her Housing Board flat in Bedok.

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SINGAPORE – When I e-mail digital creator Mathilda Huang in early May requesting to meet for an interview, she replies that a face-to-face chat might have to wait till the end of June because she is busy traversing Asia.

Her back-to-back trips play out in enviable snapshots on her social media accounts: wining and dining in Bali, sightseeing and eating sushi in Japan, then bargain hunting in the streets of Bangkok. 

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